On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 03:57:22PM +0200, Gabor Szabo wrote: > On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Adam Turoff wrote: > > That's the same situation in the US. It's only because of the size of > > the English speaking market that it gets as many perl-as-primary-skill > > job openings as it does. > > If I understand you regarding the size of the market then the number of US > listings should be roughly the same as the total of Europe.
Yes, except for the fact that jobs.perl.org only has postings in English at the moment. And as you note, the posts tend to be US-centric, for whatever reason. My point remains that the situation you're seeing in Israel (and Germany) is typical -- a small number of jobs (in every market) where Perl is a primary skill. There are a greater number of jobs where Perl is an secondary skill, or simply a nice to have (i.e., someone who can *read* all of this legacy Perl code while we convert it to Java/PHP/C#). Expanding jobs.perl.org to include non-English openings will *help*, but will not cause an increase the number of Perl positions in Israel or elsewhere. Z.
